Description:
It’s not enough to just list your experience and professional accolades on a resume. When most law firms receive hundreds of resumes for new hires, they have very little time to figure out who is the right fit for their firm. The first thing many employers do when deciding between two candidates with comparable qualifications is narrow down which one has more accomplishments or skills relevant to the company’s needs—and this likely won’t be you if you don’t highlight it in your resume.
In this video, Harrison Barnes recommends that this attorney’s resume is shortened. Here are some of the few tips that can help build your winning resume:
1. Include a summary of your experience and skills.
2. Keep it to one page, if possible.
3. Use bullet points instead of paragraphs.
4. Be concise with every word you write - don’t use filler words or phrases like “I think” or “In my opinion.”
5. Make sure that the resume is free from grammatical errors and misspellings.
6. Don’t include personal information such as age, gender, religion, marital status, or race on your resume.
Transcript:
All right. Awesome. So we're getting back here. Okay, let's see here. Yeah. So the, one of the big things guys is just proofreading your resumes that's very important. Yes, I'm not sure I understand what this experience here is. I would it's a very interesting experience. I don't know if you've been doing that for four years as long, which is, as long as this, you've had this position, if they've been as if you oh, okay. You see your pointers a monitor. Okay. That makes sense. Alright. Few articles. I like this one second.
I like this resume in terms of all of these articles, I don't understand the, this incredible productivity article writing. But it, this almost looks like someone that wants to be wow. And MBA from that's great. There's almost looks like somebody that wants to be a a locker yes.
Or something along those lines. So I, I do all of these articles many times I think with these legal interns internships, I think that I there's, if you look here, I there's more, there's almost more stuff here regarding your internships then then other stuff, but it's all related to your current job, which is actually very interesting.
So normally I would say to remove it, I would just say here to try to make it much shorter and do what you can along those lines and and see what you can do. These, but these internships should not take up this much space. I don't, I, you should have a couple of minds about this particular internship and just give the dates and then and leave it at that and not go into too much detail about that.
Other than that, the law review articles are very interesting, but they don't belong above your education. They belong below it and they belong in something that's extra. And the Barden missions are fine. But I would also put those sort of at the end or something along those lines.
But other than that same thing here. Dean's last, if you were on the Dean's list the entire time you were there, then you can write that by being on there one certain certificate or something is fine, or one semester it's not something that would lead with. And then other than that, in terms of the type of work you're doing, I think this is a very good resume.
I I would try to for the most part, with this experience, I would try to eliminate to some extent to a couple of lines. I think once people understand that we'll know what this is. Here you just talk about what this is. You don't talk about what you're doing. I don't know why you don't do that there, but don't, I see you're virtual, you're an associate with both of these.
Okay that's what I would do. So this, your experience is pretty self-explanatory I would just say, don't say what Devon capital is. Just say, work with company appointed as a monitor on behalf of us regulator, and then try to shorten up your experience senior attending meetings really isn't something that that, you need to put on a resume communicating with people is not something you need to put on a resume.
People are more interested in the work that you're doing, the reports and and that sort of thing. I would try to, if you can integrate that into this description and make it a lot shorter and the articles are interesting. I like your enthusiasm about all of this, but at the same time yeah, it's all very good.
I don't understand. Yeah it's interesting. It's very interesting. I like your interest in the law and so forth. That's very good. I would, with your experience, I would probably consider at this point, maybe trying to get a job inside of a law school or something or another government position.
